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First conquest in a while. I go through random waves of acquisitions despite having piles of projects. I'm at the point where I have enough things to work on for what would probably be a decade. Apple's Triumph of early 1997: 3400c/180 This one was as-is, $75. I lucked out, it's mint and has...

This was a big score for me, haven't had a big conquest in a long time. Obtained a very nice NeXTStation Color set, with 2 slabs (with sound boxes and keyboards/mice), 1 MegaPixel 17 inch CRT, and a lot of software and documentation. There will be quite a bit of work to be done to fix these...

Picked up a custom made G4 accelerator off of eBay. Someone is doing these as a hobby and selling small volumes of accelerators. It's a modded Apple 800mhz board with a 7455 chip soldered on and the required mods to set the clock to 1.5ghz. Paid $150 on eBay, works great. Scores 857 on...

I bought a Performa 630CD on a whim off of eBay. The price was low ($70 total) and the case looks immaculate. Why? The manufacturing date on the back is oddly late for a 68k, 6/20/1996!  Deep into the reign of Gil Amelio and the PowerPC era. Was it an oddball product of clearing old inventory...

Just sharing a neat thing I ran into today working on my 6100. PCI slot blower fans fit perfectly under the HDD cage without any Velcro. It's a snug fit so the fan will not move. This drastically improves airflow in the system, blowing cool air over the 601, Cache, and PDS expansion card. I...

Ran into some interesting problems testing the cards in my collection. My plan was to sell the excess and hold onto 1 or 2 of the cards max. Sadly, the card I wanted to keep isn't working, it's a G4 equipped one. Unlike the usual L2 fault situation where the OS hangs when the Sonnet extension...

I realize that the tunnel vision issue is a fundamental problem with the sealing of the active matrix greyscale LCD panels. Is there any known workaround for the more mild cases of the problem? For example, my PowerBook 180 only gets 2 dark screen corners on the left hand side, they do not grow...

I need Sound Manager 2.x to do some testing with Sound & the Radius Rocket under System 6. Does anyone have it? I looked online for it and can't find it anywhere. Plenty of mentions, but no links. I tried looking in some old Apple Dev CD's and they didn't have it either. Thanks in advance!

I was casually browsing eBay and I came across a cheap working G4 Mini for $25. It has the stock config of 256mb RAM and a 80gb HDD. Photos in the listing make it look Iike it’s in great shape. Seller is throwing in a 1gb sodimm upgrade for it, although I will have to install it. The purchase...

After many years of delays on my part, I finally managed to get this specific Quadra 950. Many thanks to @Trash80toHP_Mini for taking a large detour on the way home to North Carolina through the countryside of Northern Virginia to hand it off to me. The Quadra fired right up without a single...

Thought I would do a write up on my absolutely loaded Macintosh IIfx, now that the build is largely complete. Last night I got around to recapping the board, removing SMD electrolytic caps that were starting to leak. I also replaced most of the radials, leaving the yellow ones in as I had no...

I regret ever buying a Newer Tech MacClip Jr. Ever since I had a failed attempt at using one the whole system hasn't been right since. To put things short, the MacClip fell off of the clock oscillator while the system was on. It just popped off on its own! This of course caused havoc as the...

Just wondering if the Rocket is compatible with SoftPC or not. It would be really cool if you could boot an emulated x86 PC on a StageII Rocket within a Mac. A PC within a Mac within a Mac! I'm getting an unimplemented trap error each time it tries to run on the Rocket StageII.

I have a dead IIcx and a dead IIci that both require recaps to bring them back to life. Unfortunately I only have the parts to completely restore one of the two machines and it's difficult to decide which machine should get the full restoration treatment first. I'm short on superdrives, working...

I decided to recap my Color Classic first as the logic board has tons of space to work with. The board wasn't really attacked by corrosion yet so I had caught the cap rot at just the right time. It wasn't booting prior to this procedure. Instead of trying to tin the SMD leads manually I used...

After many years of procrastination, I decided to tackle my first 68k recap. I relearned soldering when I recapped a chinese OTA DVR, so the Classic II should be doable. My Classic II became unusable in 2011. The repair work is well overdue. I used the wire cutter/sharp pliers method to remove...

There are a bunch of Apple Ethernet NB nubus cards on eBay right now, some of them sealed in box. The card has it's own on board 68000 CPU which runs a dedicated networking OS to offload network traffic processing off of the host Macintosh. Apple claims this architecture results in overall...

Thought I might as well start cataloging all my conquests going forward in a single thread. I bought a NewerTech MacClip Jr on eBay for the low sum of $4.99, new in box. It's for the Quadra 800 and 840av and advertises up to a 40% gain in performance. I will be putting that claim to the test...

I decided to give my Sonnet Sonata 24 Pro a try for the first time today. Stuck it in my Radius 81/110 and it works fine, albeit slow since the drivers are not loaded. Performing heavy searching dug up nothing. The Wayback machine has some files archived but the file size is suspiciously small...

I had a bit of an impulse buy today. It's been a very, very, very long time since I bought anything 68k Mac related. Browsing eBay I ran into a fairly cheap SuperMac VideoSpigot for $17 with shipping included. I have two different SuperMac Nubus video cards so I thought this would pair well with...